I found a place to buy dolomite lime in pellet form - going to try that - and next grow I am going to make my own soil mix and use FF if I can find it or some other organic brand and I am also going to invest in some pH meters for the soil and the water, also going to buy some HQ organic nutes and better soil containers and buy mylar and use some kind of superthrive.

You appear to be totally confused. Lime is alkaline and will RAISE your pH. It actually tends to buffer your pH around 7 and stops it becoming too low (acid).

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I've been using dolomite lime in my F&D system for years to bring down the ph and when I get to much I toss in some ashes to bring it back up again. The two balanced off against each other creates co2 in the res.

A good way to stabilize soil is to use dolomite lime (calcium-magnesium carbonate). Dolomitic lime acts slowly and continuously, so soil will remain pH stable for a few months.
Using fine size dolomite lime is important, coarser grades can take a year or longer to work. You can get fine size dolomite lime at any well stocked garden supply center.
Dolomite lime has been used by gardeners as a pH stabilizer for many years. It has a pH that is neutral (7.0). When added to soil in the correct proportions, it will stabilize soil at a pH near 7.0.When growing in containers, add one cup of fine dolomite lime to each cubic foot of soil. Mix the dry soil thoroughly with the dolomite lime, then lightly water it. After watering, re-mix it and wait for a day or two before checking the pH. When growing in an outdoor garden, follow the dolomite lime manufacturers instructions.

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So in some cases it can bring the PH down while at the same time bring the PH up for other situations

The best way to rebalance your plants soil is to transplant it in some new balanced soil.

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How do I do this? Do I remove soil from the root ball? to get rid of as much of the shitty soil as possible?

They are already in big containers... but they were only transplanted a few days ago so the rootball might not be that big...

The plants look messed up right now - crispy, yellow, brown lower leaves and it seems to be stunting the growth on some of them... it's all the lower leaves but on some of them 2-3 nodes from the top are getting the same way

I have some soil that I thought was shitty but it has to be better than the crap that it is in now - because I am using the same tap water I used on my last grow and had no proiblems... I bought what I thought was better soil this time and got some clfl's etc and everything was going fine until day 28 when I transplanted them to bigger containers... then this happened... grr

I don't have a ph meter but from everything i have read I am guessing the pH is too low.

If transplanting works - how soon after I transplant should I expect to see a change?